WMI Help

[3c273]

"Tim Golden" <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote in message
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> 3c273 wrote:
> > Hello,
> > When I run the following at an interactive interpreter on Windows XP, I
get
> > the expected results. But if I save it to a file and run it, it
generates
> > the following error. (And it generates the same error either way on
Windows
> > 2000)
> >
> > import wmi
> > c=wmi.WMI()
> > for item in c.win32_PhysicalMedia():
> >     print item
>
> A couple of things:
>
> + As someone else has pointed out, Win32_PhysicalMedia
> appears to be new to XP/2k3. (This happens quite a lot
> with WMI classes; you need to check the small-print).
> So that explains why it won't work on  your Win2K box
> nor on mine.
>
> + In addition, the bit after the "c." (here, Win32_PhysicalMedia)
> is case-sensitive. So you have to put c.Win32_PhysicalMedia
> (notice the capital "W"). I'm not actually sure why this should
> be, and when I get a moment I'll take a look at the code to
> see, but it's true nonetheless.
>
> Under the covers, the module is doing exactly what
> Michel showed you in his second post (WMIS = GetObject etc.)
>
>  > Strange that this does not return the serial number
>  > reported by other hardware utilities (SIW for one) and on both of my
>  > machines this number ends with 202020202020202020202020???
>
> Strange indeed. Unfortunately, what you see is what you get
> with WMI. I don't have access to an XP machine to test, but
> let me know if this code doesn't work:
>
> <code>
> import wmi
> c = wmi.WMI ()
> for item in c.Win32_PhysicalMedia ():
>    print item
>
> </code>
>
> Good luck with WMI
>
> TJG

Thanks for your input. Strangely enough, it now works whether the Win32 is
captalized or not??? I must have had a typo in there somewhere. Thanks
again.
Louis